Actually went out and said there'd be a witch hunt about some of the horrible calls that extended what would have been 3 and outs for OSU, sanctions would have been laid already by the Big10.
But now we have urban blaming some random non-player on (his own) sideline for "injuring" his starting QB and how there will be a serious "all-out" investigation (apparently it was in pre-game warmups). Had nothing to do with him trying to rush into a solid Michigan line 15 times not including backfield tackles after whatever alleged "incident". Also failed to mention anything about this during his halftime interview. But anyhow, just classless.
I doubt you can honestly say JH fell in love with his 3rd string qb. It's simply the only guy he has left absent burning a redshirt.
Ubiquitous blame the refs comment. (2nd half wasn't so bad, but I wish there was some venue in which I could place money on big10 official biased calling in favor of the favored big10 team). 2 nonexistent holding calls vs Um/ rediculous missed block in the back and PI on 3rd down on a good drive resulted in 2 touchdowns that should have been punts and a punt that could have been at least a FG. At a minimum it should reasonably have been 14-0 at half, probably 17-0. Still, you can't win with 3rd place/3rd string in any venue, regardless of defensive strategizing. End of the day to me the loss boils down to that JOK(e) throw to two "wide open" osu safeties, not explicitly the play itself, but as an exampe. Tons of overthrown/missed throws, running into tackles, etc. However with a more experienced UM team returning next year, if the bg10 officiating does not improve vs the apparent underdog next year (even if the calls should go vs UM), we should leave the conference. Sooner or later bad officiating is going to drag down the conference itself (IE playoff committiees are going to say wait a minute, wisconsin really lost to OSU even though the refs called it for them. That was an obvious toutchdown called a non-toutchdown. Therefore neither team makes it in).
My two solaces are that 1) hopefully UM gets a marginally good SEC team for a bowl game and with good player health in a month and non-big10 refs, just goes to town, and 2) remember all you haters, this was a rebuilding year. UM came in with the what, 127th most senior team in the country? Let's remember that.
OSU is and has been a cespool of talent, with however only about 50% of it only moderately teachable in any given year. This leads them to fly at home with 2016 Michigan teams until the last second... only to get obliterated by an ACC team shortly thereafter.
You can't impart to some people the needed motivation and drive to suceed at an away rivalry game like this one when they are unteachable and feel they already have it in the bag vs "unranked" Michigan. I'm not saying this is going to be the intangible that slides things in our favor, but it could help, and here's hoping.
As was said they don't want to tip their hand, OSU had 2 weeks to prepare for this, they don't want to make it too easy when they have a good reason to "not know". But if this was one of the many interviews I've conducted I'd say he knows a lot more than he's allowed to say about who's going to play(notice though he keeps saying its up to Harbaugh). However he was asked specifically if the young guys like (Donovan) will be able to play up to this big game.
He responds essentially that even though (Peters) is young he’ll go out and make plays for us.
Nobody's that bad at answering questions. He said what he meant. I just hope he's right.
With two QB's out injured on non-call plays that should have resulted in ejections/flags, UM athletics dept appears unwilling to say anything to further offend BG10 officials for fear of fines. I too can play that game. I am not donating any more money to UM athletics or the general fund until UM officials get a pair and have a serious and visible conversation about this, even if it means threat of leaving this conference.
Lets start an alumni revolution. Next donation call I get I'm saying sorry, not until UM has a serious and visible conversation with the conference on how to start protecting our players.
At least they are adept at not scheduling the good schools vs bama. To state the obvious Bama plays only one of the other three decent SEC teams this year, conspicuously avoiding the better two of those decent teams (Florida and Georgia), and no decent out of conferencen opponents (okay they get some credit for attempting to schedule a decent team with FSU) while Michigan hungers for tough games, again. New this week Saban must have realized this also and now wants you to know he isn't trying to run up the score.
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Actually went out and said there'd be a witch hunt about some of the horrible calls that extended what would have been 3 and outs for OSU, sanctions would have been laid already by the Big10.
But now we have urban blaming some random non-player on (his own) sideline for "injuring" his starting QB and how there will be a serious "all-out" investigation (apparently it was in pre-game warmups). Had nothing to do with him trying to rush into a solid Michigan line 15 times not including backfield tackles after whatever alleged "incident". Also failed to mention anything about this during his halftime interview. But anyhow, just classless.
http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=21557589
I doubt you can honestly say JH fell in love with his 3rd string qb. It's simply the only guy he has left absent burning a redshirt.
Ubiquitous blame the refs comment. (2nd half wasn't so bad, but I wish there was some venue in which I could place money on big10 official biased calling in favor of the favored big10 team). 2 nonexistent holding calls vs Um/ rediculous missed block in the back and PI on 3rd down on a good drive resulted in 2 touchdowns that should have been punts and a punt that could have been at least a FG. At a minimum it should reasonably have been 14-0 at half, probably 17-0. Still, you can't win with 3rd place/3rd string in any venue, regardless of defensive strategizing. End of the day to me the loss boils down to that JOK(e) throw to two "wide open" osu safeties, not explicitly the play itself, but as an exampe. Tons of overthrown/missed throws, running into tackles, etc. However with a more experienced UM team returning next year, if the bg10 officiating does not improve vs the apparent underdog next year (even if the calls should go vs UM), we should leave the conference. Sooner or later bad officiating is going to drag down the conference itself (IE playoff committiees are going to say wait a minute, wisconsin really lost to OSU even though the refs called it for them. That was an obvious toutchdown called a non-toutchdown. Therefore neither team makes it in).
My two solaces are that 1) hopefully UM gets a marginally good SEC team for a bowl game and with good player health in a month and non-big10 refs, just goes to town, and 2) remember all you haters, this was a rebuilding year. UM came in with the what, 127th most senior team in the country? Let's remember that.
is going to play.
OSU is and has been a cespool of talent, with however only about 50% of it only moderately teachable in any given year. This leads them to fly at home with 2016 Michigan teams until the last second... only to get obliterated by an ACC team shortly thereafter.
You can't impart to some people the needed motivation and drive to suceed at an away rivalry game like this one when they are unteachable and feel they already have it in the bag vs "unranked" Michigan. I'm not saying this is going to be the intangible that slides things in our favor, but it could help, and here's hoping.
As was said they don't want to tip their hand, OSU had 2 weeks to prepare for this, they don't want to make it too easy when they have a good reason to "not know". But if this was one of the many interviews I've conducted I'd say he knows a lot more than he's allowed to say about who's going to play(notice though he keeps saying its up to Harbaugh). However he was asked specifically if the young guys like (Donovan) will be able to play up to this big game.
He responds essentially that even though (Peters) is young he’ll go out and make plays for us.
Nobody's that bad at answering questions. He said what he meant. I just hope he's right.
With two QB's out injured on non-call plays that should have resulted in ejections/flags, UM athletics dept appears unwilling to say anything to further offend BG10 officials for fear of fines. I too can play that game. I am not donating any more money to UM athletics or the general fund until UM officials get a pair and have a serious and visible conversation about this, even if it means threat of leaving this conference.
Lets start an alumni revolution. Next donation call I get I'm saying sorry, not until UM has a serious and visible conversation with the conference on how to start protecting our players.
At least they are adept at not scheduling the good schools vs bama. To state the obvious Bama plays only one of the other three decent SEC teams this year, conspicuously avoiding the better two of those decent teams (Florida and Georgia), and no decent out of conferencen opponents (okay they get some credit for attempting to schedule a decent team with FSU) while Michigan hungers for tough games, again. New this week Saban must have realized this also and now wants you to know he isn't trying to run up the score.